Pinter's dramatic impact

01.10.2008

Theatre critic Michael Billington, in his biography of Pinter, wrote: "Pinter remains to his credit, a permanent public nuisance, a questioner of accepted truths, both in life and art. In fact the two persistently inter-act." His surname has passed into general use as a byword for his style. "Pinteresque" is the label often given to many things theatrical and otherwise, summing up something English, tense and ambiguous. It came into usage in 1960, just three years after the first performance...

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